Posted on 05/02/2014 10:56:18 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
In January, the Obama administration put together a "working group" to analyze how huge swaths of Americans' data are being gathered and stored and what sort of privacy issues need to be addressed. The group's report was just released this week.
Before you ask: No, it's not about the National Security Agency (NSA) sweeping up huge amounts of metadata from phone and online communications by Americans, even though thats the big data conversation many Americans want to have right now. Such data gathering is vaguely mentioned in the full report, but primarily the 85-page study (pdf) is about consumer privacy in the private tech sector and citizen privacy in other aspects of government data collection. So, pretty much everything except NSA.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Exactly. The statists are saying that they will protect privacy by violating it.
I find it funny how privacy is sacrosanct when it comes to allowing abortions, but everywhere else it is an unreasonable expectation
or otherwise subject to limitation.
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heck they already know everything about me....but I don’t like that the feds keep trying to find out about my neighbors
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